Mural dedication will be on September 23, 2017 from 1-3 pm at the YMCA Town Lake (1100 West Cesar Chavez Street).
Please join us to celebrate Nuestro Arte, Wanda Montemayor, and her team of volunteers. Mural dedication will be on September 23, 2017 from 1-3 pm at the YMCA Town Lake (1100 West Cesar Chavez Street).
Please join us to celebrate Nuestro Arte, Wanda Montemayor, and her team of volunteers. Mural dedication will be on September 23, 2017 from 1-3 pm at the YMCA Town Lake (1100 West Cesar Chavez Street).
Nuestro Arte is a community project that demonstrates several artistic styles and clay-based traditions of Mexican art. The project was partially funded by Austin’s 2017 Culture Alive program. The program supports art forms to document, create, and preserve the traditions that are part of Austin’s cultural milieu. Local mural artist Wanda Montemayor, LPC/S/AT ATCS, enlisted volunteers from ages 11 to 70+ years to help create a 2-panel mural. Participants learned about and then applied three traditional art forms to hand-made ceramic tiles. Techniques included clay stamps based on symbols from early Mexican cultures and dotted designs based on pottery from Capula. The overall design was inspired by design features found in Huichol yarn paintings.
